James Apollo
By Jonathan Muirhead • Dec 31st, 2011 • Category: short players‘Two By Two’ is a taster for Apollo’s forthcoming second album, due in February 2012, Little War Little Less.
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By Jonathan Muirhead • Dec 31st, 2011 • Category: long playersScarcely has a compilation been more accurately named. Raw ragged guitar riffs and screaming vocals bludgeon the ears and threaten to make your head explode. That might sound a bit overly violent, but there’s a nice undercurrent of sleaze, undercutting it all.
Take The Seven
By Jonathan Muirhead • Dec 29th, 2011 • Category: long playersThis is an album that there has obviously been a lot of time and consideration put into the making of. As well as the enthusiasm of all good debuts, there is real heart and muscle evident in the playing of these songs. It is as though these guys think that this is the only chance [...]
When Words Fail
By Jonathan Muirhead • Dec 28th, 2011 • Category: short playersThis is the debut release from this Swindon quintet and it showcases their obvious keenness and boisterous energy beautifully.
The Lowland Hundred
By Jonathan Muirhead • Dec 28th, 2011 • Category: long playersLandscapes and travel are very much to the fore on this album. Where The Lowland Hundred’s previous effort concentrated on ‘inner landscapes’ (people’s state of mind and where they were at physically, during a particular time in their lives), Adit is very much about looking forward and moving on.
